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website design: Anne Garland / annegarland.com / Growing up in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, our next-door neighbors were Ray and Maggie Saar and their children. The two families — kids and parents — were good friends. Ray Saar was an engineer at Cape Canaveral; he would tell my parents when they “might want” to take us outside on the front lawn and look up to see some otherwise secret rocket launch. He gave my parents a beautiful bowl that his brother Richard had made. I had never seen anything like that bowl — it was my first experience of modern art, modern design. It was displayed prominently in our living room, and, after my mother gave it to me, in my dorm rooms and various apartments and homes … and so began my love of Saar ceramics. It has been a joy and an honor to work with Alison Saar on this website celebrating her father’s work. —Anne Garland